Comparison of three methods for estimating the sea level rise effect on storm surge flooding

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 487-500

  Zhang, Keqi ^a   Li, Yuepeng ^a   Liu, Huiqing ^a   Xu, Hongzhou ^a   Shen, Jian ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

ADDITION METHOD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BISCAYNE BAY; LINEAR METHODS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPECIFIC LOCATION; STORM SURGES;

FLOODS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODING; HURRICANE ANDREW 1992; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BISCAYNE BAY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876678610     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0645-8     Document Type: Article

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